Even your focus on the word "target" seems off-target... Have a look at §99. This is the other voice, answering §98. Then look at §100. Perfection doe...
So can you to show me the picture, if you can see that it is a picture. Perhaps it is a picture we cannot do without... Davidson, On the very idea... ...
IS this what @"Metaphysician Undercover" is doing - seeing the frame rather than the picture? I think it is something like that. His points always see...
This isn't how it is! This is how it is! 113 & 114: we feel it must be like this, but we are only looking at the frame. and the resolution: 115: A pic...
It's the elephant in the brain. Those who think education is for escaping "the system" will only succeed in replacing one system with another. But wha...
§112 The most prominent example of a simile producing a false appearance is for me the Mashed Potato thread. "There's the potato, and then there's the...
§111 A bit more on depth. I had thought that the depth to which he was referring was the structure hidden in ordinary language; but then there is the ...
Another neat example here is The aboutness of language. Here is a thread that is based on the surprise felt by @"Purple Pond". It seems to me to serve...
§111, depth. This part of the PI is a critique of the Tractatus, so this is an interesting section. The Tractatus sought to find the deep meaning of s...
I did. Slow to write at the moment. The post to you above was a response. I have misgivings about how he has phrased §109, in that to me an observatio...
If they were empirical problems we would need empirical theory in order to understand; but we we need is just to look? Reminds me of Kripke's quip tha...
Yep. So philosophical, perhaps suicide would be viewed as accepting the impossibility of creating further meaning. But then, suicide itself creates me...
We might agree that the issues around knowledge and certainty had much still to be said after PI; hence On Certainty. @"Fooloso4" provides an account ...
Damn, I didn't want to get drawn in to this. @"Metaphysician Undercover", it's as if you were asking why the bishop only move diagonally, and wanting ...
No, it doesn't. You added the word possible. Following the rule, or not, is shown in the doing. If the actions are in accord with the rules, that will...
See We choose a logic in the same way we choose the places of the pieces in a game of chess. We're not locked in. We might decide to play Chess960. Lo...
I understand all this as saying that logic does not set out the rules of language, but that rather we choose a logic that suits what we are doing with...
§101 I'm reading the "we" in these texts as Wittgenstein's interlocutor, the chap to whom he is explaining an error. "We" comes close to being the ear...
§97 And the depth of the problem expands, so that logic is a crystal; yet the crystal is what is real (concrete). We think to grasp the essence of lan...
§96 More errors pile on; until we have a chain from thing through world to picture to truth to belief, and whatever else you want to add - fact goes i...
§95 We think we talk as if what we think is what is true... but we can also think about what is false! SO it can't be the thinking that makes it so; n...
§91 And now comes a critique of the Tractatus... It feels like we need to be exact; and this underpinned the approach of the older text. But keep in m...
§90. Grammar. Here he is setting out the core of his new philosophical method, in which philosophical discussion is "taken apart"; Philosophy treats "...
It's also the source of a game I sometimes play here, in which a thread is built by players taking it in turns to add a rule. A game I take to have pr...
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